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RE: Is Reddit Being Overtaken By Bots? Could Steemit Go The Same Way?
Good article, and I think I agree with your position.
Maybe bots should be able to declare themselves, or else be flagged as such by the community. Then people who don't like them can mute them (perhaps granting exceptions to ones they don't mind).
I'm sure there would be problems with doing this (like with everything), and I haven't given it too much thought yet.
It's a good idea to brainstorm, but my first though is, how do you tell who or what is a bot? Bots would avoid declaring themselves if they were up to no good.
At least good ol' Cornholio always declares himself rather abruptly.
Continuing the brainstorm then :) ...
Yes, those could be tagged as such by the community. Each 'tag' action adds to the accounts 'bot' score (a similar process could designate 'spam'). Maybe this could be weighted by SP (like rewards/reps are), and then individual users could set thresholds for each, so comments from accounts exceeding their thresholds are muted.
In fact, my @steemreports search is thinking in this direction, but at very early stages:
http://www.steemreports.com/?search=bots
Make it something that can be tagged and filtered by individual user preference sounds like a pretty harmless improvement to me.